Unless you are really serious about keeping everything maxed out in games, in which case a capable gpu (read 7950 or gtx 580 armed with more than 2gb of gddr5) is mandatory, it don't make that much of a difference. Yes you turn down a thing or two, but the cheer size of the screen overcome all of this. That is my personal opinion, of course.

About ebay, korea and 16:9, using paypal, you are protected should the monitor get to you broken in any way except the dead pixel policy (do your home work on that one), it took 2, yes two, working days to get from seoul to my door, quebec city. Flat out amazing, to say the least. Ive only had 16:9 screen in the past, so i cannot coment.

Again, you just cannot beat this screen. You just have to know what you buy.